vagabondage

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In 17th- and 18th-century England, this panic resulted in harsh laws against vagabondage, and the development of charities to ameliorate the worst effects of enforced destitution.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2018

Varda’s film, though, turns any such eulogy to vagabondage on its head.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015

She is consigned to a madhouse, and her child to a life of pachyderm vagabondage in the company of a helpful mouse and some jive-talking crows.

From Time • Apr. 8, 2014

In the end he quits the sloppy vagabondage of the river to go to Tufts.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had tasted of the wine and fruit of life—Love, and wanderings in far lands, and vagabondage.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia